The UK government seems to have found itself in the doldrums of decarbonisation policy. This paralysis is being felt even more acutely as our climate target deadlines creep ever closer.
Climate innovation is at an all-time high. Yet government legislation remains predictably sluggish in how it encourages the uptake and adoption of emission-slashing technologies.
My message to the next British administration would be simple; the government must resist the temptation to simply rely on the technologies that have been available for the last decade.
Instead, we need a mechanism that allows incentives like VAT exemptions, grants and subsidies to apply to the rapidly expanding pool of climate technologies that could help the UK become the green leader it claims to be....